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In this episode, Felix and Juno embark on a perilous journey into the deep trench aboard the Gilded Needle.

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Descent of the Gilded Needle, Part 2 of this week's series: The Prism of the Deep. The journey to the deep trench required a vessel much stronger than a standard diving bell. Felix spent three days in the harbor, working alongside a navigator named Juno. She was a woman who spoke in short, clipped sentences and looked as though she had been carved from a piece of ancient driftwood. Her ship, the Gilded Needle, was a submarine that resembled a very large, very confused clockwork fish, covered in brass scales and reinforced with plates of tempered iron. "The trench is not a place for the faint of heart, Felix," Juno said as she checked the pressure gauges in the engine room. "The silver down there is so dense it acts like a solid wall. We will need the sphere to act as a drill, using its light to part the memories so we can pass through." Felix held the glass sphere, which was now humming with a steady, low frequency. "It wants to go home, Juno. I can feel it. It is like a compass that points only to the center…

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